Marsha Douglas

Personal and Academic Tutor

Dr Marsha Douglas is a Personal and Academic Tutor for our Doctorate course in Child, community and educational psychology (M4). Marsha started her career in various roles in early years supporting inclusive early education. These experiences have informed her ethos and passion for collaborative work with parents, multi-disciplinary teamwork and engagement with community projects to facilitate holistic and inclusive education.

In 2013, she completed the Child, community and educational psychology doctorate training at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Marsha has worked as an educational psychologist in Southwark since 2013 and has been a senior educational psychologist since 2019. Throughout her career, she has continued to develop an interest, in inclusive, culturally responsive and anti-racist practices, the experiences of trainee EPs, leadership roles and supervision.

Marsha has supervised trainee EPs from all of the London courses. She has been a fieldwork tutor for year 1 trainees since 2015 and in 2023 became an Academic and Professional Tutor at the Tavistock and Portman. Since, 2022 she has been a facilitator for the Trust’s British Psychological Society-accredited short course Supervision in schools and community contexts: working relationally and reflectively (CPD32).